The Biden Presidency - 2020

[flere-imsaho]

And if those cheap Chinese EVs are in part cheap because of the use of what is basically slave labor, you're ok with that? You're OK with rewarding an administration who has been executing a genocidal plan on at least two ethnic groups?

[GrantDawg]

You are only allowed to care about one genocide at a time.

[Kodos]

Well, to be fair, you can’t blame Biden for those genocides.

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

And if those cheap Chinese EVs are in part cheap because of the use of what is basically slave labor, you're ok with that? You're OK with rewarding an administration who has been executing a genocidal plan on at least two ethnic groups?

They literally make the battery cells for GM and Ford. The cars are going to be made at their new Mexico plant.

So are you in favor of tariffs on all the car companies or just this specific one that happens to make a better, cheaper EV than anyone in this country? Or if you want to put tariffs on China for their cheap goods, we can likely wipe Walmart and Amazon off the map in a few weeks.

Sure is interesting to see liberals come around on all of Trump's policies. Seems his policies weren't the issue, it was the optics.

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by Kodos

Well, to be fair, you can’t blame Biden for those genocides.

Yeah, I don't think he's giving tens of billions of our tax dollars to the Chinese.

[flere-imsaho]

You didn't answer my question. So, it would appear you're ok with some genocides, but not others.

[RainMaker]

What's your question? I am opposed to genocide and don't want my tax dollars funding it.

You're really stretching although I get it's impossible to defend Biden at this point.

[JPhillips]

This Red Lobster bankruptcy is everything wrong with hedge fund capitalism. Those fuckers should have to forfeit all of their profits from the jacked up rents.

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

This Red Lobster bankruptcy is everything wrong with hedge fund capitalism. Those fuckers should have to forfeit all of their profits from the jacked up rents.

It feels like a weird loophole to just legally embezzle funds from a company.

[Atocep]

Biden will confirm his 200th judge today, which has him ahead of Trump's pace and he has an additional 20-25 lined up for votes.

[Vegas Vic]

Here's an absolutely surreal moment from the past. 52 years ago, President Richard Nixon called Senator Joe Biden to offer his condolences for the tragic loss of Biden's wife and daughter in an automobile accident.

[JPhillips]

SCOTUS basically killed the whole idea of racial gerrymandering today. We'll see a lot of red state redistricting after the election to further disenfranchise minority voters.

[flere-imsaho]

24 years later, Karl Rove's dream of a permanent GOP majority comes closer to fruition. Of course these days both he and Bush wouldn't even get a GOP nomination for dog catcher due to a lack of purity.

[JPhillips]

Thomas wrote a concurrence to the racial gerrymandering decision and made it clear that Brown v Board of Education was an abuse of the power of the court.

These fuckwits may not be exactly for segregation but there really are a lot of folks who believe people should have the right to segregate if they choose.

[RainMaker]

He's going to get around to making his own marriage illegal soon.

[flere-imsaho]

Like most authoritarians I would imagine Thomas thinks that marriages like his should not, in fact, be legal, but at the same time believes he should/would be given an exception because of how responsible and right-thinking he is. Rules apply to other people, people to whom rules need to apply.

See also: lack of ethics rules for SCOTUS.

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

Rules apply to other people, people to whom rules need to apply.

See also: abortion

Rules set by my part are meant for the other party.

[flere-imsaho]

Democrats can't be trusted to have abortions for the right reasons, basically.

[PilotMan]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

SCOTUS basically killed the whole idea of racial gerrymandering today. We'll see a lot of red state redistricting after the election to further disenfranchise minority voters.

You mean Clarence Thomas. Of all the people, this man is nothing but a pawn of rich white men. I'm pretty sure that SLJ was channeling him in Django.

[RainMaker]

I think that's a simplistic and slightly racist view of Thomas. He knows precisely what he's doing and precisely what power and leverage he has. He's not a pawn, just selling a valuable service.